“The kind of night where the umpire is the least of the story.”
What this shows — how Nic Lentz called the 141 pitches that were taken (no swing), graded against the tracked rulebook strike zone. He got 133 right. Below, only his misses are plotted, alongside every pitch the ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) reviewed on a challenge.
The zone, as he called it
The calls that moved the game
- 1+0.28▼7 · 1-2 strike called ball· challenged
Myles Straw vs Paul Blackburn - 2+0.23▲4 · 0-2 strike called ball
Luis García Jr. vs Simeon Woods Richardson - 3-0.20▲9 · 2-1 ball called strike
Luis García Jr. vs Louis Varland
Run impact from the count run-value table: a missed strike three is worth far more than one on 3-0.
ABS — the Automated Ball-Strike System
1 pitch went to the robots · 0 overturned (ump overruled) · 1 upheld (ump confirmed). This is the ABS system’s own measurement — Hawk-Eye optical ball-tracking, not our model.
- 1Austin Wells — ump said ball, robot ruled ball: upheld.
Our tracked-rulebook zone matched the ABS ruling on 0 of 1 — a zone-definition gap (ABS grades a standardized, height-based zone), not our error.